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Sunday, January 29, 2017

The Irresponsible Revolutionist

How will I, as irresponsible
revolutionist, militate against the rolling back of historical progress?I cannot assume in advance
that anything will change, nor do I anticipate acceptance – there is no
prolepsis –Am alive to rain of the thaw,
chugging dragsaw, far as Bransgore, and pass over what I shall do, no burden to
confess.I read books by glimpsing.
All my adult life, I have done so. I shall live thus. Raindrops fall from
the leaves only, and yet thisApproximate rain, in its
velocity and distribution, convinces me, even as I walk in the dry spacesIn between each tree, that it
is raining, raining out of sky. Disclaiming, I hear the chugging dragsaw, and
do not admitEven to myself what I will
do.